Instagram

American  

[in-stuh-gram] / ˈɪn stəˌgræm /

Trademark.

1. the brand name for a photo- and video-sharing application and social media platform launched in 2010.

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verb (used with object)

Instagrammed, Instagramming

1. to post (a photo or video) on the Instagram app.

   I’m Instagramming a video of the whole family enjoying the Mickey Mouse birthday cake.

   This garden is one of the sights most frequently Instagrammed by visitors to our city.

noun

1. a photo or video posted on the Instagram app.

   Oh, not another Instagram of her and her new puppy!

Other Word Forms

• Instagrammable adjective
• Instagrammed adjective
• Instagrammer noun

Example Sentences

She has now completed her treatment and is "healing", but is "still shaken", she wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of herself in a hospital bed.

From BBC

"This moment represents an important step, but it is not enough," he said in a post on Instagram from exile in Spain.

From Barron's

Anaheim, Orange and Westminster police were part of the response, according to post on Instagram by Garden Grove police.

From Los Angeles Times

On Sunday morning he posted two pictures on Instagram, one which shows him sitting alongside his mother and three women, with one holding a photograph of Ghami.

From BBC

Emily compared her move back home to a break up and took herself off Instagram to avoid being "triggered" by a life she no longer had access to.

From BBC